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- Season 1 On Winner-Take-All Politics
- Season 1 Crony Capitalism
- Season 1 How Big Banks are Rewriting the Rules of Our Economy
- Season 1 How Do Conservatives and Liberals See the World?
- Season 1 Economic Malpractice and the Millennials
- Season 1 Decoding the Campaigns
- Season 1 Where Movies End and Politics Begins
- Season 1 Moving Beyond War
- Season 1 Standing Up For Democracy
- Season 1 Gambling With Your Money
- Season 1 An Optimist for Our Times
- Season 1 The Case for Old-School Faith & Politics
- Season 1 Big Money, Big Media, Big Trouble
- Season 1 Between Two Worlds - Life on the Border
- Season 1 Fighting for Fair Play on TV and Taxes
- Season 1 Tom Morello, Troubadour for Justice
- Season 1 Reckoning with Torture
- Season 1 Dark Money in Politics
- Season 1 How Big Banks Victimize Our Democracy
- Season 1 Confronting the Contradictions of America’s Past
- Season 1 Is Labor A Lost Cause?
- Season 1 Banking on Greed
- Season 1 Capitalism’s ‘Sacrifice Zones’
- Season 1 What It’s Like to Go to War
- Season 1 Suppressing the Vote
- Season 1 Nuns, Faith and Politics
- Season 1 The Resurrection of Ralph Reed
- Season 1 Challenging Power, Changing Politics
- Season 1 The One Percent Court
- Season 1 Elections for Sale
- Season 1 United States of ALEC
- Season 1 Hispanic America’s Turn
- Season 1 Justice, Not Politics
- Season 1 Plutocracy Rising
- Season 1 What’s Behind the Presidential Campaign Messages?
- Season 1 The Election is Over — Now What?
- Season 1 Hurricanes, Capitalism & Democracy
- Season 1 Big Media’s Power Play
- Season 1 Fiscal Cliffs and Fiscal Realities
- Season 1 Junot Díaz on Rewriting the Story of America
- Season 1 What We Can Learn from Lincoln
- Season 1 Ending the Silence on Climate Change
- Season 1 Paul Krugman on Why Jobs Come First
- Season 1 Fighting for Filibuster Reform
- Season 1 Foul Play in the Senate, and Today’s Abortion Debate
- Season 1 Are Drones Destroying our Democracy?
- Season 1 Who’s Widening America’s Digital Divide?
- Season 1 The Fight to Keep Democracy Alive
- Season 1 Taming Capitalism Run Wild
- Season 1 Fighting Creeping Creationism
Moyers & Company - Season 1 Episode 11 An Optimist for Our Times
10.00 48 minutes Angela Glover Blackwell has spent her adult life advocating practical ways to fulfill America’s promise of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” for all. Now, with our middle class struggling, poverty rising, and inequality growing, the founder and chief executive officer of PolicyLink, an influential research center, finds reasons for hope in the face of these hard realities. On this week’s Moyers & Company, Bill Moyers and Blackwell discuss what fuels her optimism. “I’m not discouraged, and I wouldn’t even dream of giving up, because we’re at a moment right now where I think we have more possibility than I’ve seen in my adult lifetime,” Blackwell tells Moyers. “Part of what I’ve been feeling is that all the issues are finally on the table… So many people who are being left behind are now in places where they have voice, and influence, and they’re forcing their way into the conversation.
